Forward Deployed Engineer
2026.02 — nowSalesforce · Customer Success Group · Tokyo, Japan (Hybrid)
- Joining Salesforce as a Forward Deployed Engineer in the Customer Success Group starting February 2026.
Bio
パク・スンオン · Forward Deployed Engineer, Tokyo
I work in Tokyo as a Forward Deployed Engineer, which mostly means sitting between what a customer says they need and what a system can actually be made to do, and being honest with both sides about the distance between the two.
Before that I was a technical program and product manager, and before that a developer. The through-line is that I like the problems where the hard part is not the code but working out what should be built at all. This site is where I write that down, and where I put the photographs I take when I am not doing it.
Salesforce · Customer Success Group · Tokyo, Japan (Hybrid)
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